Previously: Intro & Part I
The second installment of the University of California production, The Skinny on Obesity, featuring Dr. Robert Lustig and colleagues is entitled Sickeningly Sweet. I've embedded the video at right. I've entitled this installment of my Review & Critique Sickeningly Inaccurate. That is, frankly an understatement about the information presented in this episode. This video epitomizes what's wrong with many of the "anti-establishment" nutritional experts. You do not counter bad science with more bad science. This is what Lustig does here. And it's not controversial -- at least there's some evidence supporting the lipid hypothesis -- but the "science" here is counter to known basic biochemistry and in opposition to the vast majority of the evidence of metabolism such as de novo lipogenesis.
